{"product_id":"the-bruce-b-lawrence-reader-9781478011293","title":"The Bruce B. Lawrence Reader","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of his career, Bruce B. Lawrence has explored the central elements of Islamicate civilization and Muslim networks. This reader assembles more than two dozen of Lawrence's key writings, among them analyses of premodern and modern Islamic discourses, practices, and institutions and methodological reflections on the contextual study of religion. Six methodologies serve as the organizing rubric: theorizing Islam, revaluing Muslim comparativists, translating Sufism, deconstructing religious modernity, networking Muslims, and reflecting on the Divine. Throughout, Lawrence attributes the resilience of Islam to its cosmopolitan character and Muslims' engagement in cross-cultural dialogue. Several essays also address the central role of institutional Sufism in various phases and domains of Islamic history. The volume concludes with Lawrence's reflections on Islam's spiritual and aesthetic resources in the context of global comity. Modeling what it means to study Islam beyond political and disciplinary borders as well as a commitment to linking empathetic imagination with critical reflection, this reader presents the broad arc of Lawrence's prescient contributions to the study of Islam.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Few people can talk about God, scripture, humanity, art, and piety as Bruce B. Lawrence can: elegantly, eloquently, and effortlessly. Both general and specialist audiences will find this reader compelling for its clarity and pedagogy. Gems of the Qur'an dance alongside mystical insights, seamlessly joined to world events and to Muslim societies and beyond, over time. An exemplary scholar tells us how history shapes ideas and people, especially the manifold ways we experience the sublime.” -- Ebrahim Moosa, Mirza Family Professor of Islamic Thought and Muslim Societies, University of Notre Dame\u003cbr\u003e“In bringing together Bruce B. Lawrence's pieces, this volume raises awareness of his original, significant, and exceptionally broad contributions to the study of religion and especially Islam.” -- Marcia Hermansen, Director of Islamic World Studies at Loyola University Chicago\u003cbr\u003e“Ali Altaf Mian, finding in Lawrence a brilliant mind and expansive attitude toward Islam, has collected here a remarkable selection of Lawrence’s most significant articles. . . . This collection is an impressive array of scholarship on the Muslim world, worth reading from cover to cover, even by insiders with a more than passing knowledge of Islam.” -- Janet M. Powers * Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Bruce B. Lawrence Reader \u003c\/i\u003eis a window into the mind of a master scholar who has spent a lifetime learning and teaching that Islam has much to offer to the world if understood properly. . . . It was a joy to read this edited collection and I would recommend it to any serious students of Islam.\" -- Mansur Ali * Muslim World Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \/ Bruce B. Lawrence  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \/ Bruce B. Lawrence  xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Ali Altaf Mian  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Theorizing Islam in World History\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction to \u003ci\u003eShattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence\u003c\/i\u003e (1998)  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization (2010)  54\u003cbr\u003e 3. Muslim Cosmopolitanism (2012)  78\u003cbr\u003e 4. Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson's The Venture of Islam (2014)  90\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Revaluing Muslim Comparativists\u003cbr\u003e 5. Al-Biruni: Against the Grain (2014)  103\u003cbr\u003e 6. Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship (1973)  113\u003cbr\u003e 7. Introduction to Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah (2005\/2015)  124\u003cbr\u003e 8. Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1979)  141\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Translating Institutional Sufism\u003cbr\u003e 9. Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American English (1990)  165\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"What Is a Sufi Order? 'Golden Age' and 'Decline' in the Historiography of Sufism,\" from \u003ci\u003eSufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), Coauthored with Carl W. Ernst  175\u003cbr\u003e 11. Sufism and Neo-Sufism (2010)  191\u003cbr\u003e 12. \"Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart,\" from \u003ci\u003eWho Is Allah?\u003c\/i\u003e (2015)  218\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Deconstructing Religious Modernity\u003cbr\u003e 13. \"Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts\" and Conclusion, from \u003ci\u003eDefenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age\u003c\/i\u003e (1989)  233\u003cbr\u003e 14. \"The Shah Bano Case,\" from \u003ci\u003eOn Violence: A Reader\u003c\/i\u003e (2007)  255\u003cbr\u003e 15. Introduction to \u003ci\u003eMessages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden\u003c\/i\u003e (2005)  262\u003cbr\u003e 16. Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence (2013)  274\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Networking Muslim Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e 17. Preface and Conclusion, from \u003ci\u003eNew Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2002)  307\u003cbr\u003e 18. \"W.D. Mohammed: Qur'an as Guide to Racial Equality,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Qur'an: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2006)  327\u003cbr\u003e 19. Introduction to \u003ci\u003eMuslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), Coauthored with miriam cooke  333\u003cbr\u003e 20. \"AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur'an as Prescription for Mercy,\" from \u003ci\u003eThe Qur'an: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2006)  345\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images\u003cbr\u003e 21. Approximating Sajʿ in English Renditions of the Qur'an: A Close Reading of \u003ci\u003eSura 93 (al Duhā)\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eBasmala\u003c\/i\u003e (2005)  353\u003cbr\u003e 22. Epilogue to \u003ci\u003eThe Qur'an: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e (2006)  370\u003cbr\u003e 23. A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M.F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile (2011)  374\u003cbr\u003e 24. Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? (2015)  395\u003cbr\u003e 25. The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence, Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian (2018)  409\u003cbr\u003e Afterword \/ Yasmin Saikia  432\u003cbr\u003e Bruce B. 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